Manage Defense Acquisition Programs focused on Information Technology Transformation & Continuity initiatives with a "people touch".  Create value that flows to the bottom line.

Project Management , Senior Analysis, and Technical Liaison with a strong foundation in business process reengineering and defense acquisition. Holds a current DoD Clearance w/ C4ISR experience (last Reviewed 10/04) and an MBA. Qualified for many types of positions and passionate about making a difference toward a greater good while serving the country through vocation as attested by 8 years of exemplary active military service followed by 9 years of consistently delivering quality work on government contracts intended to strengthen US warfighters.

MBA, Business: 2004; Averett University.

BS, Business Administration w/ focus in Business Information Systems: 2001; University of Phoenix.

Diplomac Solutions, LLC ~ Charlotte NC ~ Apr07 – Aug07 ; Relocated to Huntsville, AL

Management consultant

• Strategic Consulting and Business Development in a small business start up on a part-time as needed basis. Performing research in financial vehicles such as grants and venture capital; as well as developing bid responses to both commercial and government RFP’s. Developing SOW’s and negotiating contracts with new clients.

Bank of America ~ Charlotte, NC ~ Oct 06 – Jan07 : Short-Term Contract

Governance Consultant under Aerotek.

• Governance Oversight through managing project portfolio system assessment validations and monitoring audit risk of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency governance compliance directives .

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller PMO ~ Crystal City, VA ~ Oct04 – May06 ; Relocated to Charlotte, NC

Project Manager / Business Analyst/ Technical Liaison on Business Management Modernization Program (BMMP) aligning systems and processes to the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) under SAIC and Orizon, Inc.

• Delivered enterprise reporting capabilities of assets and programs supporting high-level urgent government initiatives, the PPBE processes, implementing DOD 5200 compliant security standards, and assists with the achievement of Federal financial compliance for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) budget of nearly $500BB per annum. Results achieved through managing the development of a prototype business intelligence application. Achieved enterprise data efficiency implementing a quality improvement methodology adapted from Lean Thinking with a customer focus. This resulted in actualizing a common data structure that enhanced the reporting capabilities supporting congressional and executive mandates to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and align to the Enterprise Architecture. Utilized RAD spiral development philosophy to create a near-production web-based ETL, storage, query, and display environment with dynamic dimensional modeling founded on object oriented design (OOD) using Informatica's OLAP tool. Served as technical Liaison; extracting data, developing queries, reports, & dashboards for various organizations within the DoD. Source Data included Financial, manpower, logistics, weapons systems, COCOM, and geographic.

• Improved operational efficiency, optimized business/systems, leveraged existing technologies, and expanded functional capabilities. This was achieved through developing and delivering the financial enterprise transformation strategy outlining the deployment of several enterprise solutions. Managed various cross-functional working groups work products within a matrix environment contributing to the transformation strategy.

• Strategy included: interpreting the FY05 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and GAO reports; assessing Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process, and OMB circulars A-130, A-127 and A-11 for guidance determination; coordinating and facilitating various cross-functional working groups across the Comptrollers purview and across the Domains in order to develop the work products required to comply with the guidance; eliciting, assessing and documenting transformation processes and requirements; analyzing FM enterprise solutions in detail and developing transition strategies outlining deploying enterprise solutions leveraging current technology while enhancing financial management capabilities. Correlated task included: Conducting operational requirements analyses, technical assessments and program reviews. Interfacing with other DOD project offices, and other organizations conducting or interfacing with program or system operations, planning, RDT&E, and system sustainment. Participating in Milestone Reviews, program planning, technical specification development and system performance assessments. Supporting appropriate planning and development forums, contractor/government integrated product teams (IPTs), and technical interchange meetings to further understand and develop background basis for technical analysis; developing and delivering various documentation, briefs, and presentations for government client and ultimately congressional review; using EVMS, and CPIC portfolio management process to assess systems against JFMIP requirements to develop the migration plan (SV-8); analyzing and reporting on PMA budget data, Exhibit 300’s, 53’s and ITMA database. Tasking involved daily interfacing with senior government officials, peer organizations, and vendors.

Defense Supply Center, Philadelphia ~ McLean, VA ~ Mar01 – Sep04 ; Career Opportunity

Project Manager / Business Analyst on Supply Chain Management & Logistics Programs under Advanced Technology Systems, Inc.

• Grew the program budget an additional $50MM through performing and effectively presenting results of Life cycle Cost using EVMS for the ACAT level III Common Food Management System (CFMS) program calculating deployment, training, labor, and implementation cost in centralizing the supply chain management and logistics systems and functions supporting all DoD subsistence & food management. Directly responsible for developing financial models in the Economic Analysis and PMA / POM request growing the program budget. Managed a team in assessing feasibility, evaluating Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) systems, performing gap analysis, support for design reviews, test planning and execution and requirements verification, performing research on commercial best practices in food service management (bar coding, RFID, ala carte, point of sale, & back office) and developing integration and implementation plans of a COTS application. Tasking involved interacting with IT and other functional groups to effectively market and implement IT solutions. Correlated task included: developing the Acquisition Program Baseline, IA Strategy, C4ISR DoDAF OV-3, Business Case, and Concept of Operations; managing FFMIA and Clinger-Cohen Act compliance processes; performing the BMMP compliance assessment through Milestone-B and Phase 1 of Milestone-C.

• Generated contract awards worth 500K+ through contributing to corporate proposals.

Navy Space and Warfare Information Technology Center PMO ~ New Orleans, LA ~ Jun99 – Mar01 ; Relocated to DC

Business Analyst / Project Lead under CACI and Object Technology Information Systems, Inc.

• Lead teams ranging from 3 to 8 consultants and participated in gathering detail information on business processes, systems, data, and requirements; developing use cases, process models, work flow analysis, functional needs assessment, gap and SWOT analysis; performing financial analysis (ABC Costing, EA, ROI); researching & recommend best practices; establishing program methodologies; make recommendations on process improvements and automation efficiencies; and creating integration & implementation strategies. Directly responsible for the development of several LCM documents, architecture work products, requirements definition, developing and presenting program briefs to high level government and congressional constituents. Tasking involved interfacing with and presenting to high level executives at the PMO and interacting and coordinating with peers from other organizations and vendors.

• Principal simulation process modeler on following high-level DoD programs: Defense Integrated Military Human Resource System (DIMHRS); Joint Warfighting Exercise (JWX); Electronic Field Service Record (EFSR); Navy Occupational Training and Analysis Program (NOTAP); and New Order Writing (NOW) system.

• Honorable Discharge, United States Navy: Apr 1992 – Jul 1999.

• Campaign Badges: Southwest Asia Service Medal with Bronze star: Kuwait Liberation (Saudi, Arabia).

Major Awards: :

• “Navy Achievement Medal”: Secretary of Defense, John B. Dalton, New Orleans, LA.

• “Blue Jacket of the Year”: Commander Naval Reserve Force, New Orleans, LA.

• “Military Citizen of the Year”: Chamber of Commerce, New Orleans, LA.

Training:

• Essentials of Project Management & Team Building.

• Time Management.

• Principles in Process Reengineering & Modeling.

• Rational Unified Process (RUP) and UML

• CMM Level 2.

• Information Assurance.

• Navy Leadership

Methodologies, Tools, & Techniques:

• Spiral, Agile, Waterfall, Features Driven Development.

• Root Cause, Cost Benefit, Return on Investment, SWOT.

• Six Sigma, DMAIC, Lean, Quality Management, SDLC.

• ERWin, BPWin, SIMProcess, Rational Rose, Microsoft Project, Visio.

Memberships and Affiliations:

• PMI; Metrolina Chapter & Women in PM SIG.

• American Society for Quality (ASQ).

• National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), Women in Defense

• International Institute of Business Analyst (IIBA), Charlotte Chapter